Season Listings Feature In Corona Daily Independent
The Corona Daily Independent highlights seasonal items and notices with publisher George M. Blair listed as the paper’s head.
24 Dec 1915
Page 1
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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1915
Page
1
The Corona Daily Independent highlights seasonal items and notices with publisher George M. Blair listed as the paper’s head.
The Community Tree program at the tabernacle corner Eighth and Main marks the citys biggest Christmas event with Saturday 7 PM and Sunday 6 PM services. Choirs from several churches perform Joy to the World and Holy Night with Rev. Sampson Rev. E A Reyes and Rev. J W Utter delivering scripture reading and address. A sample song Silent Night is printed for Sunday night exercises.
The Corona National Bank is decorated for Christmas with large windows draped in green and red. Artists created the festive display, and bankers receive warm compliments for their efforts.
The Santa Ana Canyon road is slated to open within days after the new year. The Riverside and Orange county projects near Corona city limits and Peralta are nearly complete with concrete work from Corona to Scully ranch and Peralta to Olive finished. The remaining 7.5 miles between Scully ranch and Peralta will be dirt but ready for heavy traffic once opened.
At the Woman's Improvement Club the Christmas lecture will be delivered next Tuesday evening at the club house. The richly illustrated talk covers Nature's Great Elements of Form and Underlying Principles of beauty as related to science art industry and public education. Admission is free.
M Victor Staley of Corona city schools returned this morning from Fresno where he attended a state meeting of school principals.
Reports from El Paso indicate General Villa plans to unite with General Rodriguez and invade northern Sinaloa. Carranza troops push north toward Chihuahua City to root out remaining Villa forces as transportation facilities are described as ample for moving troops.
The sixth National Orange Show in San Bernardino runs February 17 24 with almost all space filled for top quality contests. Carpenteria Santa Barbara county seeks the 1915 lemon sweepstakes prize while Lindsay Tulare county aims for best oranges 1915. Santa Cruz county will be represented and Kern Fresno counties may enter from the north.
The Corona Dollar contest closes at eight tonight with the prize of five dollars. The Dollar circulated through the business district as contest entries accumulate tags on the bills. Merchants are asked not to hold the dollar for any contestant and to return it Monday for tallying. The winner will be announced in Monday’s Independent.
After 72 hours of paralysis Sesta Vareguz died at Arlington county hospital. An inquest at Flinn's chapel returned a verdict that Vareguz died from gunshot wounds, with no responsibility fixed. Martini Sandoval and another Mexican are held at the city jail awaiting arraignment next week.
Majestic theatre schedules a Christmas program featuring Charlie Chaplin in a two reel comedy titled Caught in The Cabaret and a Balboa company three reeler The Human Soul. A matinee is set for Christmas afternoon.
California groups plan wide distribution of Kate Douglas Wiggin story The Girl and the Kingdom to fight illiteracy. The piece, read by Wiggin at a San Diego teachers’ luncheon, is published in The Bulletin of the Los Angeles Teachers’ Club.
Coronary in the midst of the holiday spirit, merchants report strong sales over the past two weeks. Committees for the community tree, food, clothing and gifts have finished their tasks and preparations for the Holy Day are complete. Corona will observe Christmas with business and bank closures, post office Sunday hours, library closed all day, and no issue of The Independent tomorrow.
London dispatch reports Germany retook Hartmanns-Weilerkopf with 1 500 prisoners amid broader Galicia clashes. Russians in Persia near Tehran, Greek nerves grow over possible German advance to Saloniki by mid January as Britain guards Suez with 300 000 troops.
Miss Maude A. Gates travels to Los Angeles to visit friends through the New Year’s holiday, with plans to return afterward.
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